averse
\a.vɛʁs\
The verdict
“averse” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,451. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,451
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluie soudaine, abondante et généralement brève.
Corpus desk
Index FR-averse · averse · French
averse · rank #28,451 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,451
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH austro
Nearest frequency peer: austro (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « averse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Aron
Aron
71,553 corpus weight
- associatifs
associatifs
71,552 corpus weight
- austro
austro
71,551 corpus weight
- averse
averse
71,550 corpus weight
- bagnoles
bagnoles
71,548 corpus weight
- bai
bai
71,547 corpus weight
What this shows « averse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | averse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɛʁs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « averse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around averse (IPA \a.vɛʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,451 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluie soudaine, abondante et généralement brève.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for averse, with forms such as "aevrse", "averrse", and "avesre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aves", "avisé", "averti", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is averse, spelled A-V-E-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Pluie soudaine, abondante et généralement brève.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how averse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vent du sud-ouest, frappant en plein sur ma porte, en avait si bien relâché les jointures, qu’à la moindre averse j’étais inondé.
Souvent on voit la partie inférieure du nuage s’effranger en averses pour inonder de pluie les pentes basses, tandis que plus haut les vapeurs plus froides se déchargent de flocons de neige.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aevrse
- averrse
- avesre
- avrese
- avverse
- vaerse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of averse - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).